On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:34:53 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> wrote: > On mar, 2009-01-06 at 20:01 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > > > It occurs to me the reason you are confused is that when I 'Standard > > System' you are thinking I mean 'typical system' when in fact I mean > > that I select the option 'Standard System' on the tasksel menu. > > No I'm confused because you select tasks in aptitude. And tasks are > tasksel job. Ah! Aptitude also has the ability to select tasks. One of the categories in the defaults displays is 'Tasks' and under that there are things like 'End User' and 'Localisation'. For XFCE you open 'End User' and the highlight 'Xfce Desktop Environment' then press '+', which select the packages in the task for installation. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore: http://www.wightman.ca/~cshore
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